Born in Clare, McCormack received a degree in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art in Cork City, before settling in New Zealand in 2000.
His paintings focus largely on the light and compositional elements of the local landscape or the experience of tramping trips. They represent real places and actual moments in time and as such are auto-biographical.
McCormack is an oil painter with a BFA from the Crawford College of Art in Cork City, Ireland. He was a plein eir artist in the 1990s with a similar focus in his work relating to the perspective of roads or paths, and sun light, on the city streets. His thesis entitled ‘Light, Science and Painting’ obtained the Best Thesis Award. In his twenties he travelled and painted in New York, Hawaii, Cornwall and Edinburgh and exhibited in each city with an artist residency at the Banana Bungalow in Maui for 18 months.
